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Wall Street Republicans may back Hillary if Paul or Cruz is the GOP nominee

The darkest secret in the big money world of the Republican coastal elite is that the most palatable alternative to a nominee such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky would be Clinton, a familiar face on Wall Street following her tenure as a New York senator with relatively moderate views on taxation and financial regulation.

“If it turns out to be Jeb versus Hillary we would love that and either outcome would be fine,” one top Republican-leaning Wall Street lawyer said over lunch in midtown Manhattan last week. “We could live with either one. Jeb versus Joe Biden would also be fine. It’s Rand Paul or Ted Cruz versus someone like Elizabeth Warren that would be everybody’s worst nightmare.”

Most top GOP fundraisers and donors on Wall Street won’t say this kind of thing on the record for fear of heavy blowback from party officials, as well as supporters of Cruz and Rand Paul. Few want to acknowledge publicly that the Democratic front-runner fills them with less dread than some Republican 2016 hopefuls. And, to be sure, none of the Republican-leaning financial executives are so far suggesting they’d openly back her.

But the private consensus is similar to what Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said to POLITICO late last year when he praised both Christie — before the bridge scandal — and Clinton. “I very much was supportive of Hillary Clinton the last go-round,” he said. “I held fundraisers for her.”

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Battle lines in Maine are pretty straightforward. Rand Paul is supporting his fellow Republican, against a Democrat. Where I come from, that’s what you expect of Republican leaders. And Republicans that don’t get in line with their party members? Well, where I come from, they aren’t really Republicans.

Keep that in mind the next time Susan Collins doesn’t reciprocate that support.

As far as Wall Street, those goons lost me when they took the bailout money. If they want to side with Frau Pantsuit over Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, then they are no longer Republicans.

Though I’m sure you are quite comfortable with them…

You couldn’t be more wrong. I can’t stand Wall Street. They’re leeches, not businessmen. I believe that a great GOP electoral strategy would be to isolate the financial community and go after them hard to show the American public that Republicans are willing to stand up to the corrupt wealthy.

The biggest parlor game on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms these days is guessing whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president and save the GOP’s old establishment base from its rising populist wing.- politico

LOL Politico slipped up and said the establishment is the GOP ‘base’ The remaining 99 percent of the GOP is now insurgents

Maybe they got that idea hanging out with Boehner, Adelson, Cantor and Zuckerberg

… I can’t stand Wall Street. They’re leeches, not businessmen. I believe that a great GOP electoral strategy would be to isolate the financial community and go after them hard to show the American public that Republicans are willing to stand up to the corrupt wealthy.
Pincher Martin on April 28, 2014 at 3:05 PM

Yours is the winning strategy

This is the only thing the establishment GOP will not do, because, of course, they are the problem that has to be taken care of

Check out UKIP results in UK. UKIP is gaining fast because public perception that the elites are selling them out. Precisely because the so called conservative leaders no longer listen to the little people. Like here, the elites are openly slapping down the complaints of the little people, the serfs, and demanding they vote in more slave masters